According to the hackers' estimates, defenders of the
Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics seized 79 T-64 tanks, 94 infantry
fighting vehicles, 57 armored personnel carriers and 24 Grad systems.
KIEV,
August 28. /ITAR-TASS/. CyberBerkut anonymous hacker group released a new
portion of the Ukrainian army’s hacked data on Thursday, showing large losses
inflicted by east Ukraine militias on pro-Kiev troops.
Over the week of August 16-23 alone, self-defense
fighters of the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics seized 14 T-64 tanks, 25
infantry fighting vehicles, 18 armored personnel carriers, one armored
reconnaissance and patrol vehicle, one Uragan multiple launch rocket system,
two Gvozdika self-propelled artillery guns, four D-30 howitzers, four mortars,
one ZU-23-2 air defense system and 33 vehicles, according to the hackers’ data.“Therefore, our estimates alone show that the defenders of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics seized 79 T-64 tanks, 94 infantry fighting vehicles, 57 armored personnel carriers and 24 Grad multiple launch rocket from June 20 to August 23 during the Ukrainian military’s punitive operation,” hackers said.
ITAR-TASS has no confirmation of this information from other sources so far.
Ukrainian troops trapped by militias near Donetsk
The militia headquarters earlier reported that the
Donetsk People’s Republic, which had formed united armed forces, launched a
counteroffensive on August 24 and 25, encircling three large groupings of
Ukrainian troops.
The Donetsk self-defense fighters blocked over 7,000
Ukrainian troops and over 400 pieces of the armor, the militia headquarters
said.
The pro-Kiev grouping trapped in the cauldron also
included over 40 tanks, about 100 infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel
carriers and airborne combat vehicles and about 50 Grad and Uragan multiple
launch rocket systems, the militia headquarters said.
Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council
spokesman Andriy Lysenko said on Tuesday that militias had intensified fighting
in the eastern and southern fronts in the Donetsk Region.
Source: ITAR-TASS 28-08-2014
